WEST VIRGINIA BAR FOUNDATION

2015-16 ANNAL REPORT

 

  • Lunch and Laughs With a Legal Legend honoring WVU President Gee—the five annual events have generated more than $50,000 for law student scholarships.
  • Bar Foundation Fellows Dinner where a distinguished group of two judges and twenty lawyers were inducted into membership.
  • Lawyer Leadership Institute with ten diverse newer lawyers learning leadership skills from expert judges and lawyers.
  • Record amount of more than $41,500 in Bar Foundation grants, including the Public Service Scholarship at the WVU College of Law.
  • A break-even budget year with a clean audit for the previous fiscal year.
  • Growth of the Justice Fund to more than $600,000 with a fund raising campaign to get it to $1 million by the end of 2017.
  • Beneficial involvement of Board members in all aspects of governance and policy making.